The Downside of Having More Engineers

[IKE]

I think that as the globabl economy gets more defined, you will see a back-shift of the outsourcing. Outsourcing is done as a cost cutting measure, that comes with the head-ache of being slightly disconnected (both time and physical space). Countries wher pay is low benefit from this and thus absorb higher paying positions. Over time their economies grow, and it is no longer as cheap to use them and thus outsourcing moves on to a different country. (This is a really neat mechanism where the outsourced employee you train finds a higher paying job, thus to keep them you must increase pay...) This cycle will continue until eventually it makes the most sense to have persons in-house.